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possible to the convention, district annual, extension service in Women's Instltute Proceâ€" dures and officers’ conferences. These meetings are of value not only because of the speakers and formal discussiom during sessions but also because of the valuable information gleaned through informal discusswns in be- tween sessions.” . ‘ Miss Lewis said a good Women’s Institute should be both practical and progresstve. At the end of the year every Institute member should feel she has learned something she clld not know or know how to do before. Her life should be enriched, her vision broadened. She should be a better wife, a better mother, a better homemaker and a better citizen because she has been an Institute member. Home- making is just as much a profession as teach ing or nursing and through Extension Servrces for the Homemaker the Women’s Institute Branch helps to make it a profession. In clos~ ing Miss Lewis reminded the members that “through serviCe we achieve our greatest hapâ€" piness" and quoted: “Be Serviceable,” by George Matthew Adams. “I do not think we were put into this world just to serVe ourâ€" selves, or to expect love or happiness for ourâ€" selves alone. Not until we put it to the test do we come to realize the significance of scrviccablenessihappily going out of our way to make someone else happy. If we make our" selVES serviceable, humbly and without boast, it is like putting an extra deposit in the bank of character." Secretaryâ€"Treasurer’s Report Mrs. G. Gordon Maynard reported consid- erable mail received and sent outâ€"letters, parcels, badges, stationery, life member’s cer- tificates, hand books. All office supplies and equipment were adequately insured. The total receipts to September 30, 1954, were $33,774.28. The total expenditures, $18,â€" 285.12. The auditors' report was read and accepted. Conveners’ Reports Home Economics and Health, by Mrs. John H. McCulloch. The reports received indicate very clearly that our Women’s Institutes are doing a marâ€" vellous work in meeting the needs of the women of our communities for information and instruction to enable them to best meet the challenge of today as the central figure, or hub, around which the wheels of the home turn. The woman who can raise a family of healthy. spiritually controlled and physically balanced children on a limited income deâ€" serves all the help and credit possible. Study has been made of Essentials in human nutri- tion. Cheese in the daily diet. The rural women in the home and community, Value of. Home Economics in High School Table etiquette,‘01'igin and care of rayon, ,Useful- ness of citrus fruit rinds, Care of furniture Furniture cleaners and methods of use Dan-I gers of luxury in modern living, Are working 5 wives a menace to Canadian home my. Extension Services of the Womens I'M.” Branch and Home Economics SEl‘\']r-;n assisted greatly in making our Womoh‘g IFS; The tutes in reality a “Rural University“ Keen interest in Health has been shim-n wide variety of health subjects ,,,.,f,- A covered in the meetings by gueSL as well as by papers, mottoes and (I, ,,,,.In\_1:r: tions by members. “Conservation w mien: foremost among the material thin. {n ,t‘: minds of men today” was one of Hi. 0 gm“): jects. Branches sponsored X43, Toxoid clinics, Well Baby Clinics. F‘ and assisted at Blood Donor clinic. munization clinics. They placed fir ‘ in schools, supplied free dental car, liver oil to school children, gar. showers for burnedâ€"out families. layettes to Health units, sent jam a to hospitals and county homes. Agriculture and Canadian Mrs. J. C. Thompson. A review of the reports showed widening horizon of interest releu. study through papers and address sions, films and demonstrations at the problems in Agriculture and i Industries, i.e. Marketing problems dian farmers, diseases of animals. 1‘. of vegetable oils on the dairy indu high cost of labour and its effect (in 'n'l'w' tion costs, a study of agreements v ' Indus? rt‘\' able young farmers to remain at 2i: is partners on the home farm with s isinn made for financial security for tm and his family, and retirement securitv in parents. More mention was mad ll»: formation and support of Farm For: nr‘ii Folk Schools, both of which do mucl eating rural people towards self e:- and leadership. Real work has been every part of the province to produc understanding relationship between i and consumer, urban and rural : :. Working with the Canadian Assoc: ‘: w’ Consumers has been a great help i'l'li problem. The increase in interest and world CW? servation has been phenomenal, W3 mention the study of topics such as [at ing, reforestation, wild life and its pl“ non. water level control, erosion problems. ‘1 ‘ fish, the work of the Conservation Cw .l Ontario, the curse of pollution, woodli Mili- agenient. All conveners expressed thanks “11“ Agricultural Representatives and E: Service Leaders for their invaluable i the Ontario Agricultural College fox courtesies, to the Ontario Department 1 - culture for their assistance, free bullcl‘ All'l guidance and to our Director, Miss ‘3‘ F Lewis, for unceasing help, inspired .otrr- ship and elastic patience. In closing Mrs. Thompson said, "I ‘-‘ "‘3‘"? in Agriculture â€" agriculture as an in ' Primary to Canadian industry, and in 2s” HOME AND COUNTRY